Isabelle Westbury is a freelance journalist who writes for the SII. Her focus is on politics and sport, especially cricket. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Mail and The Sun, and broadcasts on cricket for the BBC. She has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union, as well as a postgraduate degree in law. She is also Middlesex CCC women’s cricket captain.
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Evangelos Marinakis, the owner and Chairman of national champions Olympiacos (pictured), is among 16 defendants in an investigation into Greek match-fixing who has been called to give evidence to the Council of Misdemeanours in Athens. However, Marinakis has been given until the beginning of June before he will be...
On Tuesday 28 April, a Turkish court ruled that it would hear evidence from former Turkish football federation (TFF) officials in the retrial of 35 defendants accused of match-fixing, according to local reports. The defendants include the Chairman of the top-tier football club Fenerbahçe, Aziz Yildirim (pictured), who in...
Two footballers were yesterday convicted for their part in a conspiracy to commit bribery in 2013 by fixing football matches. The jury at Birmingham Crown Court found that Delroy Facey – a professional footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers, West Bromwich Albion and Hull City – and Moses Swaibu...
Both FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) rejected calls for a new investigation into the 2018/2022 World Cup Bidding Process after new corruption allegations emerged, despite a call from the Council of Europe to re-run the vote to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. The allegations surfaced...
The Taiwan football association (Chinese Taipei FA) has told local media that there is no basis for allegations that its Chairman, Lin Cheng-yi, had been involved in match-fixing. “There is no way that the CTFA would ask national team members to throw a game”, a CTFA spokesperson told the China...
The Dutch football association (KNVB) has offered its support to referee Serdar Gözübüyük, after he was named by a suspect being questioned in a German investigation into match-fixing. Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported that it had received the file relating to the case against Dutch suspect known as ‘Paul R.’,...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has signalled that it will support former Pakistan cricket captain, Salman Butt, in his appeal to have his suspended sentence reviewed by the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU). In February 2011, Salman Butt and his two Pakistani team-mates, Mohammad Amir...
